Follow Luigi attending the succesful TV show of Channel 5 “The Great Model Railway Challenge”. Luigi and his team “The Shunter Guys” attempted to win the heat 5 of the show to access the grand final. You can watch the entire episode 5 with the title “Waterworld” on YouTube:

We went to Japan and now we are back! It’s been not only a holiday, but also a business trip to meet suppliers, customers and many more modellers from the Rising Sun Nation. We attend 19th JAM Convention, the important exhibition that takes place in Tokyo from 17th to 19th of August where we got inspirations and ideas for many new models to be lounched in 2019.

We decided to start a real tour through Europe (and not only) to keep in touch with all our customers and followers! Nowadays social media and the Internet are important channels to share information and ideas but there is nothing better than meeting live in some of the many rail shows that are held in the various countries.
So we invented this “Tour 2018”: many appointments that will lead us up to your favourite rail show. One to two exhibitions per month is quite a big effort for us but we are sure that will be definitely worthed!
So, we’ll see you there, wherever will be!

Summer sale by JellyModels

Don’t miss this summer discount: only on the 15th and the 16th of August 2017, on all the models in JellyModels website, 20% off on any purchase! It’s our way to celebrate Italian Ferragosto holiday: treat yourself with a JellyModels model train! Go to the shop now click here

After collecting so much interest about some samples that we presented at the recent Novegro and Colonia fairs, we have decided to put into production a new range of JellyModelskitsstarting from the freelance draisine kit.

Freelance draisine

The first of these kits is already on salein our online shop: it is the small freelance draisine kit that you may havealready seen running as a prototype on Tiny Tracks during some occasions.

The kit is designed for the real modeler who likes to create and customize his own scale models. But that’s not all! In the package you will find much more: links to digital content regarding the kit and a fantastic paper die to create your “2D printed” prototype of the draisine!

The assembled and finished version of the little draisine will be soon available and equipped with HM-01 Hakotetsu drive by Tomytec.

It’s been a month from Novegro fair, here are some postcards from Hobby Model Expo. Thanks to all our clients and to those who visited us at Lo.Co Models stand. We collected a lot of interest around narrow gauge and the new model trains we had brought to the fair.
Special thanks go to Club Treni Brianza for the interest and sympathy they shown, they talk about JellyModels on their website: check this out!
Stay tuned because more new stuff is yet to come!

15 years ago (the 23rd of February 2001) the adventure of the Russian space station MIR came to an end. That was the end of the adventure of the first long time human settlement in the outer space that had operated for 15 years then. It was the 29th of February 1986 when Russia (at that time still the USSR) had started to assemble the first modules of the space station MIR (Russian word standing for both “world” and “peace”). Eventually, the financial effort for the maintenance of MIR and, at the same time, the new International Space Station ISS made the Russian space agency take the decision to put the old MIR out of service (october 23rd, 2000).

Then here come JellyModels and a young Milanese dreamer with the project to make an exact 1:15 scale copy of the space station MIR. The commitment was to make an architecture model of the space station using the modern technologies of additive manufacturing (i.e. 3D printing). To make such a big model it was clearly necessary to subdivide the space station into its basic modules and study a coupling system to assemble the modules into their correct position. Furthermore, in order to print the biggest modules, we had to subdivide them again into more parts. To print the single pieces we used printers of a technology called FFF (fused filament fabrication) or FDM (fused deposition modeling). This is quite a diffused technology but, since we are talking of big volume parts, there are not so many printers capable to carry out this work. In addition, the bigger is the part to be printed the bigger is the risk of waste and the longer is the necessary printing time. Eventually, we must say that drawing a good 3D model and tuning the printing file are not activities within everyone’s means.

To show the outcome of this job we prepared a gallery of pictures. Thanks to the photographer, Dino Bertoli, and thanks to Salvatore Saldano, manager at FabLab Milano for the support during the development and printing of the space station MIR. Actually, we eventually made two space station models: one in black colour and one in white colour!